The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-02-12
LAKE CHARLES CALCASEU PARISH LOUISIANA
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHrnaror. Jan. %. 1887.

From onr Regular Correspondent.
The Forty.ninth Congress will pass
out of existence with good record,
notwithstanding what its critics said
last session. 1t may not produce a
new tariff act, or stop the silver coin.
age at its present rate, but it has pro-
vided against an interregnum in the
Presidential succession, it has settled
the Electoral count controversy, and
it has put into the hands of the Pres
ident an act for the regulation Of
Interstate commence, for which the
people of certain sections have been
calling in vain for years. 1t has also
attended to some pressing needs in a
dozen other direction, whatever may
have been its general conduct.
During the present week the Sen
ate has voted against woman suffrage,
voted against the confirmation of Re-
corder Of Deeds Matthews, voted for
closing the ports of the United States
against Canadian imports, in retalia-
tion for England's violation of treaty
obligation with regard TO fisheries,
and it is now debating the question
of Agricultural Experiment Stations.
The House is plodding over prosy ap.
preparation bills.
Senator Hoar created mild sensa-
tion in the Senate a few mornings
since by proposing new rule. He is
outraged at the iFreverance Of the
upper House, and he asked that the
Senate shall not be called to order nor
the Chaplain's prayer proceed at any
time until quorum be present. He
said it was a ridiculous and disgrace
ful spectacle, the daily delivery of the
invocation in the presence OF only
three or four Senators. If religious
exercises were to be continued they
should be decorous. If his PROPOSE
tion should carry in both houses, it
would greatly disturb habits of long
standing, and perhaps lead to an aboli-
tion of the Chaplain's office alto
gether.
For nineteen years the National
Woman's Rights Association has held
its sessions in Washington, For nine
teen successive years the prominent
advocates of woman suffrage have
here set forth their grievances, chal-
lenged and condemned their oppres-
sors, cherished their faith and renewed
their VOWS. For nineteen years Miss
Anthony, Mrs. Sattuck, Mrs. Stanton,
Mrs. Hooker, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Wal
lace, Mrs. Harbert,. Mrs. Blake, Mrs.
Sewell, Miss Cousins and others, have
appealed to Congress for the ballot,
have pressed the matter to a vote,
have hung over the galleries Of the
House and Senate in earnest antiei,
patton and they have repeatedly seen
one house or the other vote down
their "eause" as they saw the Senate
vote it down yesterday,
The fact that sixteen Senators of
the flfty-one then present in the SEN
ate Chamber voted in their favor
while they counted ON the friendship
of eleven more who were absent is
considered a great triumph. Miss
Anthony feels that the labors Of
lifetime are now bearing appreeiable
fruit. She realizes that twenty years
ago her proposed Constitutional
Amendment would have been hooted
out Of the Senate with derision. Ten
years ago it would not have Jared
much better, and five years ago she
could not have counted upon the ap-
proving votes of sixteen Senators,
A friend of woman suffrage said to
Miss Anthony; "The trouble with
your cause is that 1t lacks political
vitality. Senators come and 60 and
Represe still more frequently
without regard to the merits or de-
merits of the principle of woman suf-
frage, Could the question involved
become a direct issue before the peo
pie, and the election of Senators and
members be made to turn on it, the
result might be different. No one is
sent to Congress as a woman suf-
fragist," continued he, "all Of them
come uninstructed In the matter, ex-
cept by their own prejudices, and so
they vote,
Miss Anthony read in convention
the names of those Senators who voted
for her bin, calling II the "roll of
honor from the Senate wing Of the
Capitol" and then the names of those
opposed, The audience applauded
when she remarked that the new Sen
ater, Mr., Farwell, who occupies Gen,
Logau's former seat, cast his first vote
in the Senate for woman.
II was decided to "spot" those
Senators who had put themselves on
record against this bill for woman,
and Miss Anthony remarked that il
Senator ingalls, should be reelected
from Kansas it would be because the
women Of Kansas were powerless to
defeat him, He would find party
among his constituents that he had
not counted,
what True Merit Will no.
The unprecedented sale of Bosohee's
Germaa Syrup within few years,
has astonished the world, 1t is with
out doubt the safest and best remedy
ever discovered for the speedy and
etieetual cure OF Coughs, Colds aud
the seveFest Lang Troubles, 1t acts
on an entirely different principle from